Books in the Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law series

Presents an approach to human rights that goes beyond the traditional focus on states and outlines the human rights obligations of non-state actors. This book also addresses some of the ways in which these entities can be held legally accountable for their actions in various jurisdictions.

The essays in this book reveals key themes of mobilization in human rights law through case studies, and discuss topics such as which groups claim rights, what they are mobilizing to protect, the goals they pursue, the forums they use, the obstacles they encounter, and the extent of their success.

The UK's Withdrawal from the EU explores the UK's departure from the EU from a legal perspective: Michael Dougan provides a critical analysis of the final EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, including explorations of the future protection of citizens' rights, the contentious Irish border, and the prospects for future EU-UK relations.

This title uses contemporary political theories to address fundamental questions on European contract law. It also places these theories in the context of the current European contract law landscape. This book highlights future options for contract law in the EU, and how it may need to change.

This book examines recent critical accounts of human rights and argues that the international human rights movement remains powerful and significant at a time of rising illiberalism. Human rights law remains an important way of challenging injustice and should be strengthened and reformed rather than undermined or abandoned.

This book focuses on contemporary challenges to EU legality. It includes a theoretical perspective and delves into many substantive areas of EU law, including Brexit, migration, and the sovereign debt crisis.

This title provides tools and approaches to study the activities of the European Court of Justice. Using new primary sources and an interdisciplinary approach, this volume develops a more holistic methodology for studying law and courts, especially the Court of Justice.

The third edition of EU Administrative Law provides comprehensive coverage of the administrative system in the EU and the principles of judicial review that apply in this area.

This book discusses the impact of the difficult situation the European Union is currently experiencing on some structural elements of its legal order, looking for symptoms of decay, exploring examples of resistance, and assessing its overall state of health.

An inquiry into the internal market as an ambiguous legal concept, this volume will consider the vertical distributions of competences between the EU and its Member States and the horizontal distribution of powers between the Court and the legislative institutions of the EU.

This new edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights.

This book contends that the right of access to justice (at national and international levels) constitutes a basic cornerstone of the international protection of human rights, and conforms a true right to the Law. It amounts, lato sensu, to the right to the realization of justice.

The picture of Brussels-based bureaucrats exercising arbitrary executive powers is one of the favourite images conjured by Eurosceptics across the political spectrum. What truth is there in the image? This book offers a richer understanding of the nature of the EU's powers, how they relate to national governments, and how they are controlled.

Liberal intellectuals and political leaders have been slow to articulate a grand strategy informed by liberal values for confronting global terrorism. This book outlines the framework of a liberal strategy, and exposes the costs of the neo-conservative alternative that has driven US foreign policy since 9/11.

This book examines the rights of accused persons in criminal proceedings. The case-law of the international bodies dealing with this issue is presented and critically examined by an author who has contributed to its creation for almost a quarter of a century. The law of the European Convention is emphasized because of its advanced procedures, and the quality and quantity of its case-law.

Approaching the issue of democratic deficit from the angle of accountability, today seen as an essential element of democratic government, this book looks at differing understandings of the concept in the Member States and at various techniques - political, legal, and managerial - by which accountability can be assured.

This book analyses the impact of EU law beyond its borders, the use of law as a powerful instrument of EU external action, and some of the normative challenges this poses. The 'global reach' of EU law is examined in policy areas of the environment, the internet and data protection, banking and financial markets, competition policy and migration.

This volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion, and human rights. The interdisciplinary chapters provide analysis into the state of the debate on the relationship between these areas. The volume draws on constitutional and political discourses from Western Europe, the US, India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.

This volume explores the changing landscape of the EU's legal acts, focusing on the transformations and challenges to the EU's traditional legal acts, as well as those acts found at the margin of such traditional EU acts. The volume further explains the adaptability of the EU legal order, as well as the challenges facing it.

What is the nature of the relationship between the fields of new technology and EU law? What challenges do new technologies pose for the internal market and the principles of the EU? These questions are explored with reference to specific fields of technology and policy areas in order to understand this relationship and its challenges.

With many EU non-majoritarian bodies growing in political influence, this volume sheds light on the inherent tension between independence and legitimacy in the EU's institutional system, and explores ways to reconcile the two.

Grappling with the promise and the dilemmas of the extraterritorial application of human rights law, this volume investigates the legal, theoretical, and practical questions raised by extending states' human rights obligations beyond their national territories.

This book is a reflection of the social reality of mass migration in the EU from a legal perspective. It consists of a collection of essays reflecting on important current issues including the scope of the powers allocated to the EU, the cooperation of the EU with third countries and the emergence of international migration legal norms.

This book examines major issues in the protection of the human rights of migrants. Providing a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary analysis, the work allows scholars, human rights practitioners and activists to access current discussions in the field.

Do fundamental rights impact our rights and obligations in our contractual relations, and to what extent? Having integrated the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the Treaties of Rome and Lisbon, this book examines the effect these rights have on the position of EU citizens generally and in various fields of law, including private law.

The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory. To what extent should the law permit cultural defences to general rules? What role does human rights law have in the protection of minority cultures? This volume examines such pivotal questions.

The EU has long faced difficulties in ensuring compliance with its legal provisions, and as a result has developed sophisticated enforcement techniques that penetrate deep into the law and politics of member states. This book gathers leading experts to assess the legal procedures and political mechanisms at work in the EU to promote compliance.

Examines the uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political rights in the 21st Century's threat of terrorism. This book reflects on the appropriate scope and strength of protection of political rights, and covers issues such as the rise of 'militant democracies' and the effectiveness of the Council of Europe's monitoring mechanisms.

Contains a set of essays that examine different aspects of the impact of European Union law on national welfare state systems. This book includes chapters that look at a different dimension of the subject: the effect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and its provisions on solidarity, and equality and citizenship.

What role has the UN Security Council played in the promotion of human rights? Have its past actions breached those same rights the UN is pledged to uphold? Examining these two questions, this book provides a variety of viewpoints on the past, present, and future of the Security Council's role in the promotion of human rights.